The strengthening growth track emphasises the skills and expertise required to help people grow, develop Luko’s culture and establishing a great employment brand. It focuses on the ability of each employee to continuously embrace our culture, develop our community and spread the word of the great company we are all part of.
There are four specialisations in the strengthening growth track - mentorship, evangelism, recruiting, community.
Provides (informal) support to collea-gues, spreads knowledge, and develops people outside formal reporting structures.
Promotes Luko to the outside world and establishes it as an attractive and thoughtful place to work.
Strengthens Luko’s team by bringing in excel-lent and diverse staff members.
Builds community internally, gives of themselves to the Luko’s team, and champions and extols Luko's principles.
Informally mentors indivi-duals in an ad-hoc way, sup-ports new hires, and conveys institutional knowledge.
Represents Luko externally, and influences indiv-iduals positively.
Brings new candi-dates into the pipeline and understands how to evaluate candidates.
Is available and present on their current team, and works to contri-bute positively to the company culture.
Examples of demonstrated behavior
Acts as sounding board for peers and juniors.
Acts as on-boarding buddy.
Is available for informal support and advice when approached.
Shares personal and Luko’s success with their network.
Brings friends to network at Luko during events or Thursday drinks.
Attends external events and shares their genuine excitement with Luko.
Participates in the interview process of Luko.
Scans his network for hiring leads and references appropriate open positions.
Reads and learns about how to effectively conduct interviews.
Treats everyone with respect.
Participates in groups and activi-ties outside the day-to-day job.
Actively partici-pates in team acti-vities and rituals on- and off-site.
Mentors people proactively, and guides people to realisations rather than providing the answer.
Participates more centrally in small events, and takes simple actions that positively influence groups of people.
Interviews regu-larly, helps a team make meaningful hiring decisions, and helps build a diverse pipeline.
Steps up, builds connectedness, and takes concrete actions to promote an inclusive culture.
Examples of demonstrated behavior
Asks questions to illuminate concepts, rather than stating them.
Shares interesting info (articles, videos) with team members that help them grow.
Allows others to lead efforts when it will help their development.
Represents Luko on external events such as meetups and conferences.
Participates in external communi-cation groups (such as public Slack channels) and represents Luko.
Organises small events that bring people to Luko.
Writes down comprehensive interview notes and provides clear feedback.
Interviews candi-dates with respect and creates posi-tive experience during the inter- view process.
Uses the growth model to calibrate and objectively evaluate candidates.
Makes space for and encourages others to participate.
Volunteers to facilitate team rituals.
Collaborates with Luko’s folks across team boundaries / responsibilities.
Actively shares knowledge and coaches small groups of engineers and continuously contributes to Luko’s shared knowledge base.
Consolidates and shares knowledge with groups. Works hard to positively influence large groups of people on their views of Luko.
Maintains and strengthens the integrity of the current hiring process, and regularly brings in great candidates.
Contributes to improving team relatedness, and helps build a culture of lending support.
Examples of demonstrated behavior
Regularly share knowledge and experience in tech talks.
Organises workshops and coaching sessions for teams to help them develop a particular expertise.
Avoids information silos and makes sure others do so too.
Mentors or partici-pates in a visible way in an external organisation.
Writes blog-posts on Luko blog sharing about our culture, engineering practices, product achieve-ments, and more.
Publishes white papers and documentation about Luko innovation.
Coaches others on how to interview effectively and with respect.
Writes new inter-viewing questions that are widely adopted to verify technology and core values fit.
Brings new talent to the pipeline with high conversion rate.
Stays positive and improves team’s morale, with empathy.
Lends support to other teams to help achieving deadlines without being prompted and missing own deadlines.
Organises off-site events for their team to boost morale and build strong team.
Mentor of men-tors. Encourages people to mentor each other, and creates ways for them to do so.
Establishes Luko as a great, innovative company and workplace to the whole industry.
Actively contri-butes to and leads hiring decisions, and goes to great lengths to source great candidates.
Exemplifies self-lessness for the team/chapter/ tribe without compromising responsibilities, and lifts everyone up.
Examples of demonstrated behavior
Teaches and mentors indivi-duals on how to be effective mentors.
Establishes a new guild to help people in the same discipline grow.
Defines coaching curriculum for teams/guilds/ chapters.